May 8, 2019
A 37-year-old Lee’s Summit man faces felony charges in connection with the non-fatal shooting this week of another Lee’s Summit man, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced today.
Robert R. Graham, dob: 9/30/1981, faces Assault 1st Degree and Armed Criminal Action charges.*
According to court records, Lee’s Summit police were dispatched to Lee’s Summit Medical Center on Tuesday evening on a reported gunshot wound.
They found the victim and were told that Robert Graham had shot him in the foot with a 410 shotgun after the two had argued.
Police, after obtaining a search warrant, found in the defendant’s residence a disassembled 410 shotgun and a spent shotgun shell, as well as live rounds. Graham told police he remembered the victim coming to his residence earlier that day.
Prosecutors recommended a $50,000 bond.
*Charges are only accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until the defendant is either found guilty or has pleaded.
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